On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 03:38:05PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Josef Karthauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > If so, what extra work is required to make it work with non UFS file
> > systems - is 'disklabel' used on non UFS fs's?
>
> Disklabel doesn't work at the fs level, it works at the slice level -
> dividing slices into partitions, in which you can create file systems.
Ahha - of course. Ok, let me re-phrase the question then. By looking
at the contents of the superblocks on a UFS file system it's possible to
reconstruct a disklabel for a slice. Is this trick possible with other
kinds of file systems too? (Does it even make sense to ask that question?).
Should this recovery functionality be part of an already existing tool,
like disklabel, or should it be a completely new tool? Opinions?
Would it be possible to tag swap partitions with an equivalent of a
superblock to make their recognition easier under failure conditions?
Joe
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